misfit wrote:>>>>I'm up for lining a bunch of the evil tubes up in the desert and AR-15-ing them. Idiot box muthafuckers.<<<<

or just try the off button............. :?

what? and no exploding glass and violent puffs of atomized mater and the satisfaction that you've cleaned up a little bit of the planet, one TV at a time? (ya, I know, leave no trace, I pick up the debris.....)

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believe is false."- William Casey, CIA Director 1981

how many people would it take to keep an eye on the millions of poor and/or elderly city people who get converter boxes? how much are they paid? how does the government keep them quiet? next thing you'll tell me is that americans don't want those jobs, so they hire illegal aliens ... they'd be easier to keep quiet, too, especially those who don't speak english.

if this is true, it must also be true that those cable/dish boxes have cameras. and digital tvs, as well! not to mention computers and telephones and those automatic toilet flushers at the airport and ...

San Francisco's Mission district has a new free television station. Pirate Cat Radio proprietor, Monkey, as he calls himself, got his hands on some tv gear and is broadcasting on the analog channel 13. Right now Pirate Cat TV can only be seen a few blocks from its Mission transmitter but Monkey plans on moving the antenna to a new location in the near future.

"If you haven't heard about it yet then the FCC isn't doing their job of informing you that a lot of tv stations are switching from the analog broadcasts to the hd broadcasts and you'll have to buy a new converter box. So instead of buying a new converter box what you can do is keep your tv set that you have now, put rabbit ears on it , and get the all new Pirate Cat Tv," says Monkey.

Monkey says programming will run the gamut from local news type shows to the work of local filmmakers.

So batten down the hatches, raise the Jolly Roger, and put your parrot to bed. The Pirates are over the airwaves. Let's just hope Monkey can find a crowsnest high enough to mount his transmitter so we can all watch Pirate Cat TV.

Robert Wellington is an award winning photojournalist who likes bacon.

What past time are you shooting for, how much does it pay, and how are you getting back there? I suppose I should also ask what you want to do while back there. (Shoot a dinosaur? See what happened with the Red Sea? Stand guard outside a certain box in a certain theater while the President and his wife take in a play? Other?)

"Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.Do things that have never been done."--Russell Kirsch

San Francisco's Mission district has a new free television station. Pirate Cat Radio proprietor, Monkey, as he calls himself, got his hands on some tv gear and is broadcasting on the analog channel 13. Right now Pirate Cat TV can only be seen a few blocks from its Mission transmitter but Monkey plans on moving the antenna to a new location in the near future.

"If you haven't heard about it yet then the FCC isn't doing their job of informing you that a lot of tv stations are switching from the analog broadcasts to the hd broadcasts and you'll have to buy a new converter box. So instead of buying a new converter box what you can do is keep your tv set that you have now, put rabbit ears on it , and get the all new Pirate Cat Tv," says Monkey.

Monkey says programming will run the gamut from local news type shows to the work of local filmmakers.

So batten down the hatches, raise the Jolly Roger, and put your parrot to bed. The Pirates are over the airwaves. Let's just hope Monkey can find a crowsnest high enough to mount his transmitter so we can all watch Pirate Cat TV.

Robert Wellington is an award winning photojournalist who likes bacon.

Is that pirate station still around? I wouldn't be surprised if the FCC shut 'em down shortly after the article came out.

"Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.Do things that have never been done."--Russell Kirsch